Scientists: RFID Chips Can Carry Virus

New research has found that RFID chips are not immune to computer virus as previously thought. Dutch scientists created a RFID chip infected with a virus to prove that this could be done. People with bad intentions can use this to spread a computer virus to the back-end database used for the RFID and from there to other RFID chips. They can knock out databases and cause chaos at airports and supermarkets, actually any place where the RFIDs are used.


I guess they will now have to come up with some kind of solution in order to counter this.

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Interesting story. In a way, I actually consider this good news. This means if we ever all are forced to get chipped, we can fight back!
Gives something for the NWO survivalists to work on, anyhow, working on ways to hack RFID.

Best news I've heard all day .

Anything that will keep these chips out of the population makes me happy.

Originally posted by DragonsDemesne

Link gave me an error when I clicked on it...

Oops, you´re right. I don´t know what happened. It won´t let me post the link. It keeps changing it as soon as I hit preview as well...

I found a few other links instead...




CNN: Scientists: RFID chips can carry a virus

MSNBC: Radio chip barcodes can carry a virus

Australian IT: RFID could carry attack

eWeek.com: Dutch Researchers Create RFID Malware



[edit on 2006/3/16 by Hellmutt]

I dunno, this seems the usual "Oh its not gonna work so we will have to make them BETTER". Yeah, they say there "could" be problems so "we will design a better stonger faster...".

If they said, "Oh its not gonna work, we are going to scrap the whole idea" then its time for celebration and woohoos.

Dont mean to be a neg head here but it aint over til the fat lady sings.

I just wanted to point out that there are some good points made on this closed thread.
RFID Worm

the CNN and the MSNBC link are the same article.

You dont have the whole story just because some Dutch university kids wrote a script that initiated a preprogramed call procedure and subsequently changed the stored keys in the database does not mean that the conditions could be duplicated in the wild.

You will also see that they have access to an RFID chip burner and that more then likely they did not start out with an already circulating RFID chip but rather a newly burned one.

So the chance for this to be replicated in the wild are like highly minute.

Conviently they do not mention the software that they used nor the method. Its really a fluff article and mostly hype but lacking in the raw details that would expose the difficulty for this to reproduced in the wild.

And the other RFID chips were not infected but rather the manner which the scanner and decoding software read and then utilized the data was changed. Thereby resulting in a new set of results when further RFID tags were read.

The airline example would be if the database changed airport codes in the master database to something else. Such as AB = LAX but now AB = ORL

So then all the AB (LAX) routed bagage ends up on cargo cues going to ORL.

Like I said in the other thread you would have to now the back end programing function calls and the software would have to have a huge gapping hole in regards to edit mode changes for this to even become a possiblity. Most current RFID scanning systems are locked programming scans, meaning that must be placed under a specific software code instruction before any changes can be made to the database structure. Which usually requires unloading the database que entirely and then running a seperate compiler access routine before changes can be made.

So again highly controlled Dutch study that would be almost impossible to replicate in the wild